Genesis–after Kavanaugh lets find some love. I gave my brief thoughts on Kavanaugh last time and how the FBI would be the scape goat. BINGO. Let us move past and find some love. I’m not a great biblical guy, but maybe there some love in a book where humans have a tendency to do the wrong thing sometimes too. Let us start with Genesis.
So God creates Heaven and Earth and creates abundance for man in Genesis: “Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed” (Genesis 2:8).
This sounds pretty nice, but the man gets lonely. So Adam gets Eve. Now this will get complicated with the Serpent, the tree of knowledge and all. So God is in a bit of a bind with his kids (as parents often are). And the LORD God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever” (Genesis 3:22). And so out of the garden we justifiably go, women get childbirth, and snakes get their heads forever endangered by shoe heels.
Metaphor, religious truth, or fiction? Personally, don’t know and clearly I wasn’t there. But, as a writer I hear one strong love story with multiple components, twists and pivots, and a very worthy adversary (think antagonist in Satan the serpent). Now I’m not going to tell you the whole story plot point by plot point, or draw you a story arc. But, it would make a good film, or more likely limited series (actually it would be an UNlimited series). You could have action sequences and escape sequences (parting the sea with chariots chasing), big time sinning in Sodom and Gomorrah, really huge heroes in Moses and quiet stoic faithful types like Job.
My point is don’t give up hope guys, the stuff we just went through with Kavanaugh shouldn’t tear us apart. Heck, in my religious story I didn’t even get to Jesus who many believe can lead us and save us all. While I’m not so certain of that I believe that I do believe in love. If you want to read a story of mine with religious allegory, good and evil, and a lot of love and mystery check out To Die, To Sleep, Perchance To Dream (A Tale Of Love And Mystery). It certainly ain’t the bible but it has some bad guys, good guys, drugs, violence, and FBI corruption (sound familiar); and it is much shorter than the bible. It might give you a cynical take, but with some hope–unlike this last shit show with Kavanaugh which was hopeless from the start. Bless you, me, and America. Peace.
